New World Symphony

Dayton Philharmonic: New World Symphony

New World Symphony

DPAA honors Black Music Month by celebrating African American musical traditions. Florence Price, the first Black woman to receive national attention as a symphonic composer, blends Joplin-esque ballroom and ragtime idioms into her Dances. Dvorák’s New World Symphony embraces Black folk music, fusing it with the composer’s Bohemian heritage. On the second half of the program, a community choir joins the orchestra to recognize and recount the African American experience in song.

Program:

• Hale Smith “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing”
• Florence Price (orch. William Grant Still) Dances in the Canebrakes
• Harry Thacker Burleigh “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
• Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”
• Rosephanye Powell “Ascribe to the Lord”
• Adolphus Hailstork Prelude & Great Day
• Adolphus Hailstork “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand”
• Betty Jackson King “I Want God’s Heaven to be Mine”
• Hezekiah Walker “Every Praise”
• Kurt Carr “For Every Mountain”
• John Legend “Glory”
• Judith McAllister “Hallelujah, You’re Worthy to Be Praised”

Links & Tags

The Schuster Center

New World Symphony is taking place at The Schuster Center, which is located at 1 W 2nd St in Dayton. The Schuster Center - Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center - providing a world-class facility for the best in local, national and international performing artists. Can accommodate up to 2,300 for meetings or 500 banquets.

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance.

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance - The Philharmonic, Ballet, and Opera create art that celebrates life in the Dayton community.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra - The Dayton Philharmonic is our regional orchestra under Music Director and Principal Conductor Neal Gittleman.